PHILIPPINES

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PHILIPPINES
CABANCALAN NAT'L HIGH SCHOOL
Mrs. Janeth Seno
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CAN
WE
STOP
COMMUNITY
POVERTY?
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Results of data gathering

• Only three participants responded our focus
  question namely P02,P05 and P06 but we just made
  collaboration with our class and researched using
  the internet.
• Here are our outputs

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CAUSES OF POVERTY
Laziness The most notable cause of intractable
poverty identified by the majority, both in
interviews and the training, was . This is
characterized as having low interest in a good
life, passivity, lack of motivation and
initiative, low intellect, dependency thinking,
reliance on assistance from others, and lack of
life skills (to plan and organize their life),
bad training and care of children by parents.
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• It was felt by some participants that
  laziness should be dealt with through education.
  The overall feeling was that these types of
  people are no hopers and in need of some form
  of assistance to survive they do not have the
  ability and life skills to manage alone. The
  wealth ranking exercise also identified drunkards
  who squandered their animals within the category
  of lazy and poor.

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• Entrenched factors associated with poverty
• Colonial Histories
• One of the most important
  barriers to development in poor countries is lack
  of uniform, basic infrastructure, such as roads
  and means of communication. Some development
  scholars have identified colonial history as an
  important contributor to the current situation.
  In most countries with a history of colonization,
  the colonizers developed local economies to
  facilitate the expropriation of resources for
  their own economic growth and development.

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• Centralization of Power
• In many developing
  countries, political power is disproportionately
  centralized. Instead of having a network of
  political representatives distributed equally
  throughout society, in centralized systems of
  governance one major party, politician, or region
  is responsible for decision-making throughout the
  country. This often causes development problems.
  For example, in these situations politicians make
  decisions about places that they are unfamiliar
  with, lacking sufficient knowledge about the
  context to design effective and appropriate
  policies and programs.
• Corruption Corruption often accompanies
  centralization of power, when leaders are not
  accountable to those they serve. Most directly,
  corruption inhibits development when leaders help
  themselves to money that would otherwise be used
  for development projects. In other cases, leaders
  reward political support by providing services to
  their followers

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• Warfare
• Warfare contributes to more entrenched
  poverty by diverting scarce resources from
  fighting poverty to maintaining a military. Take,
  for example, the cases of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
  The most recent conflict over borders between the
  two countries erupted into war during 1999 and
  2000, a period when both countries faced severe
  food shortages due to drought.
• Environmental degradation Awareness
  and concern about environmental degradation have
  grown around the world over the last few decades,
  and are currently shared by people of different
  nations, cultures, religions, and social classes.
  However, the negative impacts of environmental
  degradation are disproportionately felt by the
  poor.

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• Throughout the developing world, the poor often
  rely on natural resources to meet their basic
  needs through agricultural production and
  gathering resources essential for household
  maintenance, such as water, firewood, and wild
  plants for consumption and medicine. Thus, the
  depletion and contamination of water sources
  directly threaten the livelihoods of those who
  depend on them.
• Social Inequality One of the more entrenched
  sources of poverty throughout the world is social
  inequality that stems from cultural ideas about
  the relative worth of different genders, races,
  ethnic groups, and social classes. Ascribed
  inequality works by placing individuals in
  different social categories at birth, often based
  on religious, ethnic, or 'racial'
  characteristics. In South African history,
  apartheid laws defined a binary caste system that
  assigned different rights (or lack thereof) and
  social spaces to Whites and Blacks, using skin
  color to automatically determine the
  opportunities available to individuals in each
  group.

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EFFECTS OF POVERTY

• Extreme hunger and starvation
• Lack of sanitation
• Diseases and disabilities
• low health care services
• High crime rate
• Increased suicides
• Increased risk of political violence such as
  terrorism, war and genocide
• Homelessness
• Depression 5

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• Lack of opportunities for employment
• Low literacy
• Loss of population due to emigration.
• More susceptible to death from natural disasters.
  
• Increased discrimination
• Lower life expectancy
• Drug abuse

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WAYS OF SOLVING POVERTY

• Most of these are obvious, from the account
  above. For example -
• Change the culture and advertising that delude
  the poor more than the fortunate able to look
  after themselves.
• We should be studious and diligent to work to
  earn money. Besides, we should learn to save
  money for our future life. Dont paid for the bad
  thing for our health or life. The most important
  is that we should learn to stop our wants and
  needs too much things that are not necessary as
  our King tell us.

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• 1). To improve the quality of education in the
  community.
• 2). To improve the quality of human resources
  (their skill, their creativity,  their
  intellectual  and their motivation). 
• 3). To improve the stability of politic situation
  in the community by stopping war,
•    4). To provide jobs for unemployment so they
  can have permanent income and
• improve  their standard of life.
•  5). Finding the certain ways to make the area
  fertile so it is possible to produce
•  certain crop as their food.

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• Culture shift to distinguish between Honorable
  and Filthy Riches according to source and amount
  of wealth.
• Increases in land values directed to benefit the
  whole public, not speculators.
• Justice - low cost and ready access.
• Decent housing and rental conditions.
• Health and energy is needed to get out of
  poverty. Preventive health care free and
  available for all. Alternatives for drugs for
  escape, consolation, thrills.

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REFLECTIONS

• In joining learning circle, we
  experience tellecollaboration with other nations
  sharing ideas at a certain topic. This marvelous
  learning experience is helping us learners to
  know what are their ideas and opinions with our
  focus questions and at the same time, knowing
  their cultures and beliefs . We are also gaining
  many new friends everytime we do the
  tellecollaboration. Our group is hopeful to join
  another batch in learning circle. We are very
  thankful too to the participants who responded
  our focus question. We really enjoy the moment
  and learning significant information in each
  participant.